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Throw rock at him: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in New Jersey. Photo: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

The Trump presidential campaign a billionaires’ ballot

In the fight are Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bizos, who put pressure on the editors of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, X’s Elon Musk and Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel

The vice-president of the US, Kamala Harris. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Gaza and the US elections: Harris is a flawed but better alternative to Trump

Ultimately, a vote for Harris is a vote against the extremism and corruption of Trump, but it is not necessarily a vote for a more just or ethical foreign policy

Former US President Donald Trump departs following a campaign event in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania, US, on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Trump sought to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to high inflation during President Joe Biden’s administration, before pivoting to off-the-cuff criticisms, which he said allies have urged him to avoid. Photographer: Heather Khalifa/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump or Harris for president: The wars will rage on regardless

No matter which of the candidates wins the presidential race, US foreign policy is unlikely to change radically

The vice-president of the US, Kamala Harris. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Manufacturing a presidential candidate: The case of Kamala Harris

The US vice-president needs to come up with a message that resonates with the white middle and working class to win them over in this election

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Martin Luther King Recreation Centre on April 18, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)

The impact of Citizens United on American democracy and campaign finance

A landmark court ruling resulted in ‘dark money’ – donations from untraceable sources, both big business and citizens – shaping America’s democracy

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump could run for president from behind bars

The United States Constitution does not prevent him from contending the elections and the majority of Republicans continue to support him

Capitalism in crisis: US President Joe Biden (pictured during his inaugural address, above) may be far from Donald Trump ideologically, but both leaders’ parties are imprisoned in a neoliberal capitalist mode of thought, argues the author. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty/AFP & Bettmann)

The American political process is disconnected from economic reality

While the Democrats and Republicans use an outdated political playbook, people need protection from the capitalist system itself

Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. (Photo by Inti Ocon/Getty Images)

Xiomara Castro’s win in Honduras could address the country’s endemic corruption and violence

After more than a decade of violent repression and undemocratic rule that emerged after the 2009 ouster of Manuel Zelaya, a new leader takes the reins of the Central American…

How tenure elongation and a lack of term limits weakens the integrity of elections in Africa

Sitting presidents shouldn’t be given a window to legally hijack their countries

LONG BEACH, CA – OCTOBER 26:  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attends California first lady Maria Shriver’s annual Women’s Conference 2010 on October 26, 2010 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Attendees to the conference include Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and candidates for California Governor Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown.  (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Rights are at risk without principled leadership in the US Supreme Court

COMMENT: My sons, I weep because Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who fought gender discrimination, has died and Donald Trump, under whom hardwon victories have been eroded, wants to…

Lazarus Chakwera is sworn in after winning Malawi’s historic presidential election

The opposition presidential candidate won the vote by 20 percentage points, after last year’s poll was overturned because of irregularities

Malawi’s Constitutional Court annulled the results of the May 2019 presidential election. (AFP)

Malawi Court bars South African lawyers from presidential re-election case

The electoral commission’s decision to appoint expensive foreign advocates has been widely criticised

Wine was wearing a red tie and his signature red beret, which he has called a “symbol of resistance”, a look copied by dozens of his supporters at the event. (Biko Macoins/AFP/Getty Images)

Uganda’s popstar MP Bobi Wine to contest 2021 presidential vote

Wine, 36, entered Parliament in 2017, and has emerged as a leading critic of President Museveni

Volodymyr Zelenskiy will now take the helm of a country of 45-million people beset by challenges and having run on the vaguest of political platforms. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Comedian Zelensky wins Ukraine presidency in landslide

Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president in a TV show, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko

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Trump lawyer says he paid $130 000 to porn star linked to president

‘The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone’

The daughters of anti-apartheid activists Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela- Mandela

How closure of TV stations has narrowed democratic space in Kenya

Kenya’s government has brought the role of the media into sharp focus after shutting down three main television stations

Raila Odinga after being sworn in as the people’s president.

‘People’s president’ gambit reignites power struggle as old as Kenya

Raila Odinga’s swearing-in has rattled Kenya’s government thanks in part to the large crowds that turned up

Hotspot: South Sudan remains in crisis despite a new ceasefire while rebel leader Riek Machar is still under house arrest in South Africa.

Mixed outlook for Africa in 2018

The leaders for life will face challenges. Debt levels and servicing costs will plague governments. And conflict hotspots won’t cool down

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Clashes in Kenya as Kenyatta gets sworn in for disputed second term

​Kenyan police clashed with both ruling party and opposition supporters ahead of the swearing in of President Uhuru Kenyatta after two disputed polls

Members of the KwaZulu-Natal ANC Women’s League  perform in support of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the party gears up for the ANC’s next national elective conference.

Ramaphosa takes an early lead as ANC branches cast their vote

With almost a third of branch nominations completed, Ramaphosa is leading the ANC presidential count but NDZ is certainly not out of the race yet